Grace Lee Boggs Quotes About Globalization

Quotes about: Globalization

• The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Powerful, Light, Revolution

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• I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  People, Industrialization, World

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• I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Powerful, Thinking, Light

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• The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Strong, Government, Ideas

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